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Twisted (2004)

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Average Rating: 2.9/10
Reviews Counted: 135
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 133

An implausible, overheated potboiler that squanders a stellar cast, Twisted is a clichéd, risible whodunit.

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Average Rating: 3.2/10
Critic Reviews: 39
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An implausible, overheated potboiler that squanders a stellar cast, Twisted is a clichéd, risible whodunit.

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Philip Kaufman directs the detective thriller Twisted (originally to be titled The Blackout Murders), with a script by up-and-coming filmmaker Sarah Thorp. Ashley Judd plays troubled police detective Jessica Shepard, who works under the jurisdiction of the man who raised her as his daughter, police Commissioner Mills (Samuel L. Jackson). While investigating a serial murder case, Jessica -- who is has a proclivity for dangerous, drunken one-night-stands -- discovers that all of the victims are

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Sarah Thorp

Aug 31, 2004

$25.0M

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This thriller seems most interested in lingering over battered and bloodied male faces.

January 5, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader
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Sarah Thorpe's screenplay is a compendium of by-the-book clichés; Kaufman's direction leaves the material stranded in a limbo between po-faced and trashy; Judd's approximation of drunkenness is worrying to behold.

February 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out
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The outdated, cliche-riddled direction is so inept and indifferent that it's hard to believe Twisted was lensed by the same Philip Kaufman who made The Right Stuff.

March 11, 2004 Full Review Source: New York Observer
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A suspense thriller without thrills or suspense.

March 9, 2004 Full Review Source: Village Voice
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Judd is let down by Twisted because tearful, confused victim doesn't come naturally to her; she's not fun to watch suffer if you can't see her calculating the payback.

March 1, 2004 Full Review Source: Salon.com
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This movie plays like they were reading [Roger Ebert's] little movie glossary and they took every cliche in there.

March 1, 2004 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper
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Numbingly predictable, inept, and boring.

December 29, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media

At least the performances are solid.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile
Urban Cinefile

Judd, Samuel L. Jackson, Andy Garcia and David Strathairn all are wasted.

August 7, 2008 Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review
Sacramento News & Review

Overcooked dialogue, some wildly implausible story devices, and a dearth of remotely likable characters, and Twisted is a crime story that just doesn't pay.

November 2, 2006
Christianity Today

Twisted is so bad I'm embarrassed to have seen it and therefore am a bit ashamed to write even an unkind review.

July 2, 2006

Just like nearly all of Judd's past entries in the genre, this film isn't great, it's just average.

June 26, 2005 Full Review Source: FromTheBalcony

The plot turns are increasingly preposterous, as are the metaphors.

November 19, 2004 Full Review Source: PopMatters
PopMatters

Judd, Jackson and Garcia's work is pedestrian at best. But they did accept this script.

October 14, 2004 Full Review

I didn't go to sleep and only looked at my watch a couple of times, so I guess it wasn't terrible.

October 7, 2004 Full Review Source: tonymedley.com

Twisted is a thriller only a misogynist could love.

August 31, 2004 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine

Director Philip Kaufman's commentary provides lots of detail about the storyline (a bit too much, perhaps), plus plenty of observations on the filmmaking process.

August 12, 2004 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide
Apollo Guide

Remember kids, alcohol is bad, mmm-kay?

July 10, 2004 Full Review Source: ViewLondon
ViewLondon

The movie may dole out a few guilty pleasures, but you won't believe a word of it.

July 9, 2004 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine
Empire Magazine

Una de esas película que sin el cast que tiene pasaría sin pena ni gloria al olvido.

June 15, 2004
Cinenganos

Audience Reviews for Twisted

Very average thriller with who cares ending. I gave it an extra star for Ashley, as I always think she is quite good. Story here is just a bit flat and surprisingly dull.
January 22, 2008
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Who done it? Typical in you know there is "twist" coming, but still enjoyable. Something felt very 1990s about the whole movie.
August 30, 2010
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